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Brass and Bamboo - Tak Shindo (Capitol, mono)
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4 minutes ago, danasgoodstuff said:
To paraphrase Alan Jackson, it's 2pm somewhere.
Yeah, well that's how you get into trouble! Hydrating with fizzy water now!
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16 minutes ago, Jason Bivins said:
I hear that, Steve. RTF never clicked for me either.
+1
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35 minutes ago, DMP said:
‘Ring-a-Ding Ding.’
Sinatra?
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On 1/12/2022 at 11:50 PM, medjuck said:
I've never heard Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue before (believe it or not) but when it came on the radio this morning I thought I was hearing the intro to Van Morrison 's Moondance! Some of the changes seem the same too. Midnight Blue was released a couple of years before Moondance and since Van has always been a jazz fan I presume that he (unlike me) had heard it. Seems to me that Kenny has as much of a claim as Horace Silver has against Steely Dan.
Not only the intro, but the melodies leading into the bridges of both tunes are similar.
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5 minutes ago, jazzbo said:
For me he started getting really interesting in the 'nineties on.
Don't think I heard any of that. I have the Biography 5-LP set, which I think goes to the mid- or late-1980s.
1 minute ago, Milestones said:Bob is so expressive on "Once Upon a Time" from just a few years ago. I never thought he could do a vocal like that, especially so late in his life.
How are his standards albums?
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Just now, Milestones said:
Dylan is almost always interesting to listen to, and often he is quite moving as a vocalist.
Agreed, especially in the 1960s and 70s. He started to lose it by the late-1970s IMO.
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6 minutes ago, Milestones said:
More evidence for those who say Reed couldn't sing. I would probably agree, but in rock (and punk and rap) music you don't necessarily need even modest singing ability. You do need a distinctive style, and Lou certainly had that in his best work.
Yeah, what constitutes "good singing" is based at least as much on what is communicated than it is on technical ability. Bob Dylan once said he was a greater singer than Caruso, and he had a point.
6 minutes ago, Milestones said:His voice, for being the lead, is unusually low in the mix.
It sounds like he may have been on the same track as the backing vocals, and the engineer was a asleep at the wheel.
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It's hard for me to listen to CTI this early in the day. It makes me want a glass of wine. Maybe I should reserve CTI for 2pm or later.
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11 minutes ago, Milestones said:
Lou Reed is really in there? About all I can say is that this is a bunch of guys who can't sing.
He is the lead vocalist. Pre-Velvets, he had a salaried gig at Pickwick. This probably fell under "assumes other duties as assigned." He does not sing lead on any of the other tracks from the album.
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On 9/3/2022 at 0:50 PM, felser said:
One of mine too. I think the title track from Hubbard's 'First Light' may be my very favorite CTI cut.
Yes, that is a great one. I place Hubert Laws' "Fire and Rain" in this category also.
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File under: Things you never expected to hear.
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Expressions East - John Berberian (Mainstream, stereo)
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13 minutes ago, JSngry said:
Hank Crawford was before Jr. Walker. Hank Crawford is OG.
Stylistic similarities are stylistic similarities, regardless of who came first. In this case, I don't care all that much, but thank you for pointing it out to me regardless. I would have assumed as much.
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Now listening to the CTI recording of Hank Crawford "We Got a Good Thing Going" and I'm not picking up on an SNL Sax sound, for whatever that's worth. I am getting a hint of Jr. Walker, who is OK with TTK.
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OK, now listening to the title track from Red Clay, and I am totally digging it. I knew I held onto the LP for a reason, and while it may have at one time struck me as being "not CTI enough," it is certainly delivering the goods now. I will spin the whole LP soon.
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15 minutes ago, JSngry said:
Saying that Hank Crawford favors the SNL sax sound is like saying that Ray Charles favors the Tom Jones vocal approach.
All I can tell you is that when the track came on, I ran for the delete button. If it is not the SNL Sax sound, it was something that irritates me equally as much.
And I LOVES me some Tom Jones!
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Many years ago, I started an award-winning Organissimo thread titled SNL Sax.
I loaded a bunch of CTI stuff into a playlist, and I found myself deleting the stuff by Hank Crawford, who seems to favor the SNL Sax sound.
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9 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:
Trombonist bandleader in the San Francisco Cro-Magnon Trad movement of the early '40s. Pretty lame IMO.
I figured that anyone named Turk Murphy would be involved in Dixieland or whatever you want to call it. During the Great Vinyl Purge of the 1990s, whenever I would dig through the collections of WWII-era guys, there would always be at least a few Dixieland albums in there, including Pete Fountain and the Dukes of Dixieland. Even WWII guys with otherwise good taste in music would always have a few of these.
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1 minute ago, Larry Kart said:
I also got a Turk Murphy, or was it Lu Watters album, very early on. My rookie batting average was not too good. At least I didn't go for a Firehouse Five album.
You're further along than I, as I am familiar with only Turk Murphy by name, and couldn't tell you anything about his music. Don't know the other two.
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12 hours ago, medjuck said:
Does it count if they were really your parents' and your older sisters'?
Yes, what I was really trying to get out was how those early albums influenced our taste.
10 hours ago, Milestones said:TTK,
I'm almost amazed by the similarities of our early purchases. I had some Brubeck in there, but not much. I went heavy on Miles, Trane, McLaughlin, Mingus, Hancock, Wes, Monk (but different titles from yours). I didn't discover Randy Weston, a big favorite, until about 1990--and his early stuff quite a bit later.
We are probably about the same age (I was born in 1960), or maybe you are a bit younger. But I didn't develop my interest in jazz until my third year of college.
I am slightly younger than you. I started buying jazz in the late 1970s. Lots of classic stuff was out of print at that time, or just coming back into print via OJC twofer LPs. (They weren't called OJC then, but basically Fantasy and all the labels they acquired.). There were lots of Blue Note and impulse! albums in the cutout bin also. This trend continued into the early 80s, and helped me acquire even more jazz after high school. I then went through a long period in the 80s during which I did not listen to jazz at all, as chronicled in my thread titled "University Jazz Nightmare Stories" or something similar. I got back into jazz in the late 1980s, through getting into Sinatra and the Ella Songbook albums, and also driving around with my Dad, who played jazz cassettes in the car. (This is how I first heard Doin' Alright by Dexter.)
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A 20th century renaissance man.
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1 minute ago, JSngry said:
Bought it at a Firestone store, because I 'm a staunch traditionalist. Always have been.
I love the fact that there was a time you could buy a jazz album at a tire retailer. Those days are gone.
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4 hours ago, Rooster_Ties said:
Two C90 cassettes that I made in the Fall of my junior year of college (1989)…
Side 1: Mode For Joe + “Gary’s Notebook” from The Sidewinder (also with Joe Henderson).
Side 2: Power to the People
Side 1: KOB
Side 2: Nefertiti + “Prince of Darkness” off The Sorcerer
Played both those tapes 100 times each over the first few months I had them.Ah, yes, the two albums on a 90-minute cassette approach!
I mentioned the Charlie Parker Savoy box in my first post. I created a cassette with the master takes!
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Love his Dynamite Brothers score. "Betty's Theme" is the money cut.